Colossians 3:5
Mortify therefore your members which are on the earth, fornication, impurity, the vile passion, evil concupiscence, and insatiable desire, which is idolatry:
Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
4When Christ shall appear, who is our life, then shall you also with him be manifested in glory.
6for which things the wrath of God cometh upon the children of disobedience;
Cross References
Mark 7:21For from within out of the heart of men proceed wicked reasonings, adulteries, whoredoms, murders,
Romans 1:29replete with all injustice, whoredom, wickedness, covetousness, villany; full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, evil habits; whisperers,
Romans 6:13Neither present your members as weapons of unrighteousness for sin: but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as weapons of righteousness for God.
Romans 7:7What then shall we say? Is the law sin? God forbid. Yea, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not even known concupiscence, unless the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
Romans 8:13For if ye live after the flesh, ye are ready to die: but if by the Spirit ye mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
Matthew Henry on Colossians 3:2-5
The Spiritual Life. ( a. d. 62.) 1 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. 2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. 3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. 4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. The apostle, having described our privileges by Christ in the former part of the epistle, and our discharge from the yoke of the ceremonial law, comes… Read the whole commentary →